First Test: ATI RADEON R7500  (3/14)

Testsystem

The RADEON was tested on an AMD Athlon 1333 System in Windows98SE. The mainboard is powered by AMD’s 760 chipset. Although Windows XP is not yet officially supported by the current drivers, ATi has promised a new release within the next couple of days. Therefor, testing in Window 2000 and XP will follow in a later article. The ATi sample board is a so-called A12 sample. This is equivalent to final silicon as it will be found on the retail boards. Nonetheless, please keep in mind that my sample was not a final card.

 

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CPU AMD Athlon C 1333 MHz
Mainboard MSI K7 Master-S (MS-6341)
Chipset AMD 761
FSB 133 MHz
AGP-clock 66 MHz
Memory 256MB PC-266 (DDR)
HD Seagate 12GB ST313021A DMA 66
OS Windows 98SE - DX 8.0a
Others 10MBit Netzwerkkarte (Realtek)

Driver versions used for testing:

  • ATI RADEON 7500 (290/460MHz): ATI v4.13.7184
  • ATI RADEON DDR 64MB (183/366MHz): ATI v4.13.7184
  • NVIDIA GeForce 3 (200/460MHz): NVIDIA referencedriver v21.81
  • NVIDIA GeForce 2 PRO (200/400MHz): NVIDIA referencedriver v21.81

The Benchmarks

The following benchmarks were used:

  • Evolva - DirectX 7 game with T&L Support
  • Evolva Bump - DirectX 7 game with T&L Support (Bump Mapping Modus)
  • Giants - DirectX 7 game with T&L Support
  • Unreal Tournament - DirectX 7 game with T&L Support (Benchmark.dem)
  • Quake3 v1.17 - OpenGL with HW Transformation Support (Demo001)
  • Quake3 v1.17 - OpenGL with HW Transformation Support (nv15demo)
  • Villagemark - OpenGL Overdraw Benchmark software from PowerVR
  • 3DMark 2000 - Synthetic DirectX 7 Benchmark
  • 3DMark 2001 - Synthetic DirectX 8 Benchmark

Current Pricing

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